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Islamabad, Jul 19: Pakistan will grant consular access to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav according to the Pakistani laws, for which modalities are being worked out, the Foreign Ministry said in a late night statement. The ministry also said that Kulbhushan Jadhav had been informed of his rights under the Vienna Convention on consular relations. "Pursuant to the decision of the ICJ, Kulbhushan

Thane, Jul 19: Senior inspector Pradeep Sharma, one of the famous `encounter specialists' of Mumbai Police, has resigned, sources said Thursday evening. Sharma, who heads the Anti-Extortion Cell of Thane police at present, was not available for comments. However, sources in the police department said he had tendered resignation earlier this month as he wanted to join politics, and the resignation

New Delhi, Jul 19: The founder of I Monetary Advisory (IMA), Mohammed Mansoor Khan, was arrested in the early hours on Friday. Khan had landed at the Delhi Airport in the wee hours and was taken under the joint custody of Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the Directorate of Enforcement (ED). According to the SIT officials, Khan had been absconding for over a month and was located by a team of

Bengaluru, Jul 18: The Special Investigation Team on Thursday arrested a seasonal social activist propagating for I Monetary Advisory (IMA) Jewels and its founder Mansoor Khan who is accused of perpetrating financial fraud worth crores. “The arrested identified as 42-year-old running Umar Shariff ran a school by name “Al Basheer” off Bannerghatta Road. He is a social activist and educationist,”

New Delhi, Jul 18: India on Thursday said the verdict of the International Court of Justice(ICJ) in the Kulbhushan Jadhavcase is a complete vindication of its stand and it is incumbent on Pakistan to implement the ruling. In a major victory for India, the ICJ on Wednesday ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence awarded to Jadhav and asked it to provide consular access to him. The ICJ

New Delhi, Jul 18: Calling Nelson Mandela her inspiration and guide, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday said the anti-apartheid icon told her that she ought to be in politics long before anyone else did. Remembering the former South African president on his 101st birth anniversary, she said the world misses men like Mandela more than ever today. His life was a testament to

Mumbai Jul 18: Mumbai Police has arrested terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Rizwan Kaskar in connection with an extortion case, an official said today. Rizwan, the son of Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar, was arrested on Wednesday night from the international airport in Mumbai when he was trying to flee the country, the official said. Iqbal Kaskar was also earlier arrested in an extortion

New Delhi, Jul 18: A day after the World Court ordered Pakistan to review death penalty to Kulbhushan Jadhav, India Thursday asked Pakistan to release the former Navy officer forthwith and vowed to vigorously continue efforts to bring him back. Making a statement in both houses of Parliament on the judgment by the International Court of Justice, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said,

Tokyo, Jul 18: A suspected arson attack on an animation production company in Japan killed 24 people and injured dozens more on Thursday, with flames gutting the building in the city of Kyoto. Police said the fierce blaze appeared to have been started deliberately but there was no immediate information on a possible motive. The toll continued to climb hours after the fire began, with fire

New Delhi, Jul 18: The Income-Tax Department has attached a ‘benami’ plot worth Rs 400 crore in Noida belonging to BSP supremo Mayawati’s brother and his wife, an official order said. The provisional order for the attachment of the seven-acre plot, “beneficially owned” by Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata, was issued on July 16 by the Delhi-based Benami Prohibition Unit (BPU) of the